Software Project Management Unit 2 – Project Life Cycle and Effort Estimation: AKTU previous year questions
20 AKTU questions from Unit 2 (Project Life Cycle and Effort Estimation) asked in 2022–2025, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 31 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is Software Process and Models (11 times); 17 questions came back in a later year. The latest ones are listed below; on the page you can filter them by 2-mark or long questions, topic and repeats.
Unit 2 previous year questions
- What is the agile methodology? (2 marks, 2025, Software Process and Models)
- What are the different stages of project life cycle? (2 marks, 2025, Software Process and Models)
- Explain the significant features of the RAD model for software development. (7 marks, 2025, Software Process and Models)
- What is the COCOMO II model? Explain its components and how it is used in software cost estimation. (7 marks, 2025, Effort and Cost Estimation)
- What are Full Function Points in the COSMIC model? How do they contribute to estimation? (7 marks, 2025, Effort and Cost Estimation)
- Explain the limitations of the waterfall model. (2 marks, 2024, Software Process and Models)
- Explain the parametric model for effort estimation. (2 marks, 2024, Effort and Cost Estimation)
- Calculate the function point value for a project with the following information domain characteristics: Number of user inputs = 30, Number of user outputs = 42, Number of user enquiries = 08, Number of files = 07, Number of external interfaces = 06. Assume that all complexity adjustment values are moderate and weighting factors are average. (10 marks, 2024, Effort and Cost Estimation)
- Outline Rapid Application Model for software development. (10 marks, 2024, Software Process and Models)
- Outline Agile methods for software development. (10 marks, 2024, Software Process and Models)
- Discuss Function Point and compare it with Lines of Code. (2 marks, 2023, Effort and Cost Estimation)
- List out different types of cost estimation technique. (2 marks, 2023, Effort and Cost Estimation)
Most asked Unit 2 topics
- Software Process and Models – asked 11 times
- Effort and Cost Estimation – asked 9 times
Unit 2 question pattern
- 2-mark questions: 8 asked in 2022–2025
- 7-mark questions: 3 asked in 2022–2025
- 10-mark questions: 9 asked in 2022–2025
- About 31 marks from Unit 2 in every paper
- 17 questions were asked again in a later year
Unit 2 questions year by year
- 2025: 5 Unit 2 questions asked (25 marks across that year's papers)
- 2024: 5 Unit 2 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2023: 5 Unit 2 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2022: 5 Unit 2 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)